Tomato Lady - _TNY_4988
This beautifully orange-red beetle is a female red-brown longhorn beetle (Stictoleptura rubra).
My wife spotted her on a tree stump while we were out on an evening walk and Mrs. Beetle was most accomodating and stayed still for me to try several angles to shoot from.
The male has a different colour and is more of a tan hue, like this: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51900629825/
Tomato Lady - _TNY_4988
This beautifully orange-red beetle is a female red-brown longhorn beetle (Stictoleptura rubra).
My wife spotted her on a tree stump while we were out on an evening walk and Mrs. Beetle was most accomodating and stayed still for me to try several angles to shoot from.
The male has a different colour and is more of a tan hue, like this: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51900629825/